Psalms 107:39
Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
In Context
38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their cattle to decrease.
40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Cross References
Genesis 45:11And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Ruth 1:20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
2 Kings 4:8And it fell upon a certain day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
2 Kings 10:32In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael stroke them in all the coasts of Israel;
2 Kings 13:22But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:34-43
Wonders of Divine Providence. 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and… Read the whole commentary →